Snakes and Us
September 5, 2019
A lot of people have an aversion to snakes. For some it is just a distaste, they would rather not... Read More →
Pleistocene Park: A Large-Scale Restoration, Part II
August 29, 2019
Last week’s blog introduced Pleistocene Park and concluded with a hint that mammoth were an especially important component of the... Read More →
Pleistocene Park: A Large Scale Restoration, Part I
August 22, 2019
Much of the far north landscape of the world is covered with tundra. In some areas the main vegetation is... Read More →
Adventures in Deep Time: Cats and Horses
August 15, 2019
When I was a graduate student at UCLA in 1965, my summer job involved being a mineral collector and a... Read More →
Building Wetlands Efficiently
August 8, 2019
The construction of a wetland is mainly an earthmoving exercise, reshaping the landscape so that water will be provided as... Read More →
The Quarryman’s Hammer
August 1, 2019
In 1968 I was scoping out an abandoned quarry north of Iowa City for a class field trip. While there... Read More →
Hummingbird Rescue: A Book Review
July 25, 2019
Fastest Thing on Wings: Rescuing Hummingbirds in Hollywood, by Terry Masear, Mariner Books, 306 pages. This is an amazing story.... Read More →
The Storms of May
July 18, 2019
This May saw a lot of damage to trees. Those with a weak spot sometimes shattered. ... Read More →
Islands, Cores, and Corridors III: Today
July 4, 2019
Corridors are proving to often be more difficult to create, manage, or preserve than cores because they so often involve... Read More →
Islands, Cores, and Corridors II: 1992-1994
June 27, 2019
Until 1992 there was no organized concept plan available to deal with the realities that most conservation lands were biological... Read More →
